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by shkkmo 2y ago
> Oh, and this would in Quartzsite, a town of 2500. While Quarzite has an year-round population of 2500, the actual winter population is much, much higher in addition to significant tourist traffic.. Blythe is right nearby and has year-r
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by shkkmo 2y ago
There is one single car train route on the east coast that goes between Virginia and Florida with no stops. I am skeptical about the ease of scaling this, especially given the state of non-car distance travel on Amtrak.
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by shkkmo 2y ago
Threatening to ban someone unless they pay you is extortion.
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by shkkmo 2y ago
> So this really should be seen as an act of goodwill rather than malice. It's called "extortion"
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by shkkmo 2y ago
> this is expensive and OP is mad they can't do their legally fraught gambling operation on Cloudflare's addresses for free This is directly contradicted by the contents of the article, perhaps you should re-read it.
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by shkkmo 2y ago
I am not aware of any models of the universe that posit an infinite mass. Edit: Also, "observable universe" is a frequently misunderstood concept. Just because something is now outside the observable universe (the distance between
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by shkkmo 2y ago
Which is the explanation for some of the paradoxes rasied in the article. SLS was foisted on NASA by politicians. The design of Artemis seems set to take advantage of that political will to fund the private development of the next stage of
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by shkkmo 2y ago
The EU punishment of Apple for malicious compliance should include making the DMA apply to iMessage.
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by shkkmo 2y ago
The algorithm accuracy scales with the ratio of memory to set size so you don't actually know if it is "close enough" without an estimate of of the set size. I think the headline is clickbaity and the article makes no effort
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by shkkmo 2y ago
It's hard to guage exactly how much credence to put in that letter due to the gag contracts. How much was it in support of Altman and how much was in opposition to the extremely poorly explained in board decisions, and how much was pur
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by shkkmo 2y ago
Counting is a subset of estimation, not a synonym. If I estimated the number of quarters in a stack by weighing them, that would be different from estimating the number of quaters in a stack by counting them. Both methods of estimation have
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by shkkmo 2y ago
Combining semantic symbols is behavior we have evidence of in other species, but without evidence of structure impacting the relationships between the meanings we still don't have sytax. That seems like a good candidate for where we mi
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by shkkmo 2y ago
> Interesting to note that this is what the Amish actually do. It is indeed. I would argue that many people make this choice; we pick which technologies and tools make our lives better. The right and ability do this is one that I think o
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by shkkmo 2y ago
> To wit, the negative effects of technology are simply an increasing function of how advanced it is. Laughably easy to disprove. Gunpowder is less sinpler and older than antibiotics and sterilization techniques. Are you saying that some
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by shkkmo 2y ago
Language is a system of grammar and syntax for converying meaning. Until you find evidence of those, calling something language is a baseless opinion. The closest we currently have to evidence of non-human language use I know of, comes from
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by shkkmo 2y ago
> I get that it's all client-side, but that is not an advantage to people working with video files, which are often large, and upload speeds are often the biggest bottleneck. This comment seems strange to me, can you explain it bet
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by shkkmo 2y ago
> Actually, I think the standard of living, at least in the long-term and for the many future climate refugees, is not actually that much improved. Compared to what? Where do you draw the line of the "pre" technology? Technolog
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by shkkmo 2y ago
Requiring indentification to publish so that copyright is protected would be massive overreach and this sort of thinking is why I think copyright is a dangerous concept that needs to be sharply curtailed, not expanded to cover AI training.
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by shkkmo 2y ago
> Different kinds of fun, but in the former you'll wonder if it's the technology doing all the work. "All the work" is useless hyperbol. There are things that simply can't be done on a road bike. There are things
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by shkkmo 2y ago
To me, this sounds like the rate of unreported crimes would be lower in dense areas, making them even safer than they appear in the statistics. You are correct that if the average number of observers per crime is higher, that could indeed m
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by shkkmo 2y ago
Thats not how statistics work. The average number of crimes per person is going to be the same so the crime per capita is the same as the amount of crime an person should expect to experience on average. You may be thinking of a median or m
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by shkkmo 2y ago
How is EAS over AM useful if people don't have AM recievers? FM (as currently used and licensed in the US) has much more limited range EAS is also much more limited than an AM station as is designed mostly for national level emergencie
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by shkkmo 2y ago
I fail to see what was "brought back". This just looks like indeed ads on SO.
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by shkkmo 2y ago
> If you can't be bothered to pull over while driving by yourself in the nuclear apocalypse Are trying to be silly? I'm much more concerned about drivers having access during a bizzard, earthquake, mudslide, forest fire or any
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by shkkmo 2y ago
> it behooves them to understand how an applicant understands and would configure into that plan. I (and a lot of us I think) follow you up to this point, but then you lose us here. How does a written statement, the expected content of w
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by shkkmo 2y ago
If you want a piece of safety equipment to be readily available to every driver, then putting a radio in the boot won't work. I absolutely think that having an emergency radio is better preparation that relying on your car. However the
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by shkkmo 2y ago
It is a general purpose computer running a specialized operating system. Something doesn't stop being a general purpose computer when you change the OS.
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by shkkmo 2y ago
Conversely, a car is probably the single most important tool most people will own in an emergency situation. It provides a generator, radio and source of heat that can be more easily moved than any alternative. Sure, fuel usage becomes a pr
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by shkkmo 2y ago
AM is good for long range coverage and North America has a lot of really empty areas that make this long range more useful than it is in denser areas. AM stations in the USA carry a variety of content while being a bit heaveir on "talk
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by shkkmo 2y ago
Micro transactions allow easier unlocking of functional upgrades via "warbonds" that you buy eith premium currency "Super Credits". This currency is easily available in game and I have unlocked all the warbonds without a

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